Russian authorities say a fire at a coal mine in Siberia has killed 11 people and injured more than 40 others By DARIA LITVINOVA Associated Press November 25, 2021, 11:49 AM • 2 min read Share to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this article MOSCOW — A fire at a coal mineContinue Reading
State media report at least four people have died in the collapse of a workers’ dormitory in the southern Chinese province of Jiangxi ByThe Associated Press November 23, 2021, 4:47 AM • 1 min read Share to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this article BEIJING — At least four people have diedContinue Reading
A Nigerian Red Cross official says seven more bodies have been recovered from a high-rise apartment building that collapsed while under construction in Lagos, bringing the death toll to 43 By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press November 5, 2021, 12:37 PM • 2 min read Share to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail thisContinue Reading
TOKYO — Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated Friday on a street in western Japan by a gunman who opened fire on him from behind as he delivered a campaign speech — an attack that stunned a nation with some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere. The 67-year-oldContinue Reading
CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh — Authorities in Bangladesh were still struggling Monday to determine the cause of a devastating fire that killed at least 49 people, including nine firefighters, and injured more than 100 others, officials and local media reported, as experts have raised concern over the safety standard in the country’sContinue Reading
MADRID — An explosion hit a biodiesel production plant in northern Spain on Thursday, killing two people and forcing the evacuation of 250 children who had been on a field trip nearby, police said Thursday. Police video of the explosion showed flames engulfing the plant in the northern region ofContinue Reading
Iran’s state TV says that at least five people were killed when a 10-story commercial building that was still under construction collapsed in the southwestern city of Abadan ByThe Associated Press May 23, 2022, 1:13 PM • 2 min read Share to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this article TEHRAN, Iran —Continue Reading
LVIV, Ukraine — Complaining that the West is “stuffing Ukraine with weapons,” Russia bombarded railroad stations and other supply-line targets across the country, as the European Union moved to further punish Moscow for the war Wednesday by proposing a ban on oil imports. Heavy fighting also raged at the AzovstalContinue Reading
Police say a fire in a pharmaceutical factory after an explosion has killed at least six workers on night shift and caused burns to 13 others By OMER FAROOQ Associated Press April 14, 2022, 4:42 AM • 2 min read Share to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this article HYDERABAD, India —Continue Reading
KYIV, Ukraine — Russian troops left the heavily contaminated Chernobyl nuclear site early Friday after returning control to the Ukrainians, authorities said, as eastern parts of the country braced for renewed attacks and Russians blocked another aid mission to the besieged port city of Mariupol. Ukraine’s state power company, Energoatom,Continue Reading